oh ok I gotcha appreciate that!

 

Cx racing coolers will more than likely get you where you want to be but there definitely more efficient designs and cores out there.

There are a lot of safety features that you can include with meth kits but it's still not for me. I'd rather spend money on a better design intercooler (air/air or air/water) and run E-85 if I need to.

 

Before I started tuning for meth my IAT was only 20* higher at 23 lbs. The cx racing cooler is very efficient for what it is and I only lost 1lbs of boost according to my math. Now the 3" intercooler may not be anywhere nere as efficient.

 

That's surprisingly good. Problem with the way most people do IC (myself included) on this car, is actually just the inlet/outlet design. With the inlet/outlet on the bottom, directly across from each other, you're actually only utilizing a small percentage of the surface area of the core. Air will take the path of least resistant, which is straight across the bottom of the core. Rendering more than half of the core useless.

 

so you're saying its better to get an intercooler with an offset inlet and outlet or a the ones with the same side inlet/outlet to maximize the use of the intercooler vs the one with the inlet/outlet across the bottom?

 

Correct.... here is a photo of an intercooler which I think it's the most ideal setup.



Here are some microsoft paint drawings from my other forum to help explain it.

Bad and Better


Best

 

ok I gotcha. I dont think ive seen an intercooler on a stang with the same side entry/exit yet makes sense though

 

That logic would be true if you ran an intercooler on a naturally aspirated car. But on a car with boost the air backs up and is forced to fill the entire intercooler due to lack of room in the piping for all the air. Boost isn't just in the intake manifold it's in the entire intake system.

 

If you have that big of a restriction, it's time for a bigger core.

 

If there was no restriction there would be no boost.